Introducing TackleTour's FPI - Fluorocarbon Performance IndexIn case you hadn't noticed, we've been in a bit of a hibernation mode regarding line reviews. With our acquisition of The Machine, we're looking to change that starting right now. Over the last several weeks, we've been in deliberations back at TT Headquarters developing a method of testing line, evaluating data, and translating all the results...

Three Way Premium Braided Line Showdown
Premium braided
lines have been
showing up on store
shelves touting more
carriers (actual
individual strands),
smoother
performance, and
better color
adhesion. How do
these lines actually
perform? Let's take
a look right now.

Sunline's Machine Gun Cast - A
Misfire of Sorts
With positive
experiences with two
of their product
already in the
books, Sunline makes
it easy to want to
sample more. Today,
we take a look at an
older generation
line from Sunline, their Machine Gun Cast Copolymer.

Toray's Premium Nylon : Bawo Superhard Polyamide Plus
Our second look into the fishing line product by Toray brings us to their Bawo Superhard
Polyamide Plus line,
a 100% nylon product
touted as having low
stretch and high
sensitivity. These
claims sound great,
but really, they're
in complete
contradiction to
what we've come to
expect from a nylon
line.

Filler-Spool Line Review: Sugoi FluorocarbonNext up in our filler-spool style round up of fishing lines is the fluorocarbon product from Gary Yamamoto Custom Baits, Sugoi Fluorocarbon. Interestingly enough, this is almost a tale of two lines. For the last several years, I was under the impression, the Sugoi
FC was only produced
in one color,
gray...

New 2009 Fishing Lines by Berkley, Spiderwire, and Stren
With ICAST 2008 is just a little more than a month away
it is preview time
here at TackleTour Headquarters
as we break stories
on upcoming products. Here
is a first look at some of the new 2009 fishing lines by Berkley, Spiderwire, and Stren.

Filler-Spool Line Review: Gamma Edge 100% Fluorocarbon
We're introducing
some abbreviated, filler-spool line reviews to quickly get the data and our impressions out to you, our readers, and help with your decisions amongst the vast array of line products available. First up? Gamma Edge 100% Fluorocarbon.

How Does Berkley's Latest Attempt at a 100% Fluorocarbon Line Stack Up?
While the Berkley
Vanish & Vanish
Transition Fluoro
lines didn't do so
hot in our
Fluorocarbon
Showdown, Berkley
went to the drawing
board and produced
the Trilene 100%
Fluorocarbon. We
acquired several
spools and put it
through our own
batch of tests to
see if it's worthy
of the name
"Trilene"

A Tri-Colored Web of Line : Hi-Seas Black Widow Co-Polymer
When news of our
Fluorocarbon
Showdown articles
broke, we were
flooded with
inquiries from
fishing line
manufacturers
wanting in on the
frey. One of these
companies, Hi-Seas
and today, we look
at their tri-colored
product, the Hi-Seas
Black Widow
Co-Polymer.

Sunline's Top End Offering: Shooter Fluorocarbon
The long awaited first official review following our Fluorocarbon Showdown parts I and II is finally here. Let's start with a line I've been using for the better part of almost two years now, here is our take on Sunline Japan's Shooter Fluorocarbon!

TackleTour's Fluorocarbon Showdown Sequel!!
It was becoming more
and more obvious
that there were some
remaining, nagging
issues that required
our attention after
our March 2007
article. Like how
about our claim that
fluorocarbon lines
have as much
stretch, if not
more, than our
baseline
monofilament; or our
use of the Polamar knot to assess knot strength; and how about the whole visibility issue?
Let's find out!

Hook up
with invisible Maxima Ultragreen fishing lineEven though fishing lines of today
have become more complex than ever, mono lines are still a favorite
among the majority of anglers who turn to the reliability of mono. Maxima
developed the Ultragreen fishing line to deliver superior performance while
still maintaining the reliability of mono